Actress Iyabo Ojo has slammed her colleagues in the movie industry for defending Baba Ijesha who admitted to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. Baba Ijesha confessed to molesting his victim 7 years ago.
Earlier, actor Yomi Fabiyi had warned his colleagues against condemning Baba Ijesha as he refers to the case of Baba Suwe; who was arrested for having illegal drugs in his possession and was later found not guilty of the crime.
In an Instagram video over 5 minutes long, Ojo, a rape survivor herself, warned her colleagues to stop defending the child molester. She also warned against victim-blaming, which is a huge tool that society uses to free rapists from justice. Ojo said she wondered why people subjected victims and their parents to intense questioning instead of getting justice for them.
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She said in the video, “We all heard what happened to Baba Ijesha and the rape issue and since yesterday, I have been seeing a lot of people posting his pictures, with some saying he was framed and others saying we should wait…I just want to beg my colleagues, please in no way should we try to defend him,” she said.
“Because the reason a lot of girls and boys that are raped and molested do not come out to say their opinion most especially if they have been raped by a prominent person”. She continued, “There is no excuse for rape. There is no excuse for molestation. A paedophile is a paedophile. He doesn’t need any excuse to rape”.
Ojo also spoke against the foolishness of asking for CCTV footage of Baba Ijesha molesting the little girl. “Stop asking for the video because a child is involved, a 14-year-old child is involved. And if you are a father or mother I don’t think you want a video of your daughter being molested on the Internet.”
Watch the video below:
Iyabo Ojo is one of the prominent public figures to speak out against Baba Ijesha’s crimes. Tonto Dikeh famously promised to make life unbearable for him for molesting a child when she was 7 years old.